Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire - Chapter 196

Chapter 196: A prophetic vision of going to school is NOT a proper education!
“First, Undecided, you need a title. An attribute boost won’t hurt!”

I tapped my chin, thinking about the titles I had available. Being a Researcher Bee would’ve been most fitting for Undecided, but that required spending at least several days studying technologies to fit the title’s requirements.

Undecided learned some things from her visions of the future, but were they enough?

<The target doesn’t meet the requirements for the “Researcher Bee” title, user.>

‘Damn. This would’ve been too easy, I guess. All existing titles either require training, or are useless in this case, like the Artist Bee.’

I was really unsure that both Undecided and the Bee Empire had time for Undecided to train unrelated things. She was stable at the moment, but it felt too temporary.

‘Maybe I can make a new title instead? System, I want to create an “Oracle Bee” title!’

<Title created: ‘Oracle Bee’. Requirements: ‘Precognition’ gene at tier IV or higher.>

〔Oracle Bee〕: +30% to base endurance.

Undecided jolted in shock when the title activated. In this instant, her base 20 endurance turned into 26.

This was way stronger than an average attribute boost—but why endurance?

“Oh, I feel lighter all out of the sudden. What happened?” Undecided asked, looking between me and Ambrosia.

I smiled.

“You are now officially an Oracle Bee, Undecided! It looks like endurance helps you focus your thoughts, too.”

It made sense if I thought about it. One of Undecided’s key problems was the pure amount of information her brain was assaulted with. Now her brain was sturdier, if not smarter.

“Ooh… A job title! I understand, Father. Oracle—you called me this way. Oracle is me, and I’m an Oracle… right?”

“No, ‘oracle’ means someone who can see the future,” I said. “But let’s continue. I want you to sit comfortably, relax, close your eyes and focus on your visions again. But! Don’t look for differences in them. Instead, try to find the similarities. Focus on the most common things in all of them, instead of trying to make sense out of a single vision.”

Based on what Undecided explained earlier, I guessed that some of her visions showed more probable versions of the future than others. I hoped that the approach I suggested will help her see the whole picture of the most probable events.

I could compare it with overlaying a thousand pictures of men in a photo editor to create an “average male face”.

Undecided listened to me with wide eyes.

“I think I can do it. I’m not entirely sure, though…”

“That’s alright.” I smiled and patted her head. “Just try—carefully! If you feel bad, abandon the visions immediately. And if you succeed, remember this feeling and stop watching, too!”

Undecided nodded, shifted her pose, and closed her eyes. Her hands twitched nervously. Everybody else in the room watched with bated breath, ready to lunge and help.

For a minute, nothing happened, except for more hand-twitching. Then Undecided bit her lip.

Several more minutes passed in tense silence. A few times Undecided twitched, shook her head or winced, but overall, she seemed to be doing much better than before.

Suddenly, Undecided opened her eyes with a gasp and stared at me in terror.

“Father, I saw it! One point that stays the same—like a pheromone trail that guided me! This thing—it was all around me. Your absence. You weren’t here… anywhere!”

I balked; Nurse Larva-Carer gasped and covered her mouth with her hands; Ambrosia froze and peered into Undecided with a dagger-like stare.

“What? What do you mean? I *died*?!”

Undecided huddled on herself and shook her head. Tears gathered in her eyes.

“N-no… You just weren’t there. I don’t know—the dreams are so hard to discern! But there wasn’t anything about your death. You just weren’t anywhere.”

“Anywhere in Hive Supremo?” Ambrosia asked. “Or—”

“Anywhere!”

Undecided’s distress immediately made me pull her closer into a half-hug.

“But I’m here right now, my girl. So nobody has to worry just yet! And probably never. Maybe you misinterpreted something in these visions, Undecided! I was just hoping that if you could get used to seeing them all like a single picture, it would be easier for you to bear them. Especially when you want to relax and rest.”

Undecided shuddered, then began calming down.

“It does… It does help. Like one large dream instead of all the small ones. So you say I made it out wrong? You won’t disappear, right?”

“Of course not. How could I?” I said in an absolutely self-assured tone.

I never put as much effort into lying as I did at this moment! But it worked. Even Amby looked less tense than a moment before.

Silence reigned for a moment.

I was trying to understand how exactly this could happen. Was I kidnapped, perhaps? Or maybe Undecided’s visions were too mixed up? Maybe I didn’t go missing at all and she was making it out all wrong!

“And the humans fought with us a lot,” Undecided spoke suddenly. “Was this wrong, too?”

“I doubt it,” Ambrosia said. “We must speed up the ‘Eye for an Eye’ operation, Nectus. *Especially* if this disappearance is related to humans somehow.”

She stared at me, and I understood—I was going to be stuck in Hive Supremo *at least* for the next week. There will be no arguments with Amby this time.

Not that I wanted to argue. Even if the prophecies were vague at best, I didn’t doubt that they were true at the core.

Undecided knew too many things which she shouldn’t have known right after emerging from her cell.

“I agree, Amby, but not here. Undecided doesn’t have to worry about these things. You hear that, girl? Just rest for now and keep practicing with your abilities in the future. And go to school, definitely. A prophetic vision of going to school is NOT a proper education! You got to make friends with your sisters.”

Undecided smiled.

“School was fun, usually. Maybe it will be even better when I go through it for real.”

I smiled back at her. What an adorable moment…

But I was too busy worrying about Undecided’s prophecies! Will we make sense of them before it was too late?